I have a small urban flock, 5, three lay in the nest and two lay on the ground behind the AC unit. How do I incourage the two that lay on the ground to lay in the nest?
Our hatch is over and these are the Golden Cuckoo Marans that hatched, Beautiful!!!
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I keep detailed records of my hatches. I keep records on how many eggs I ordered and how many eggs arrive, who I order from and their hatch rate in a percent form. I keep records on where the eggs are in the incubator that hatch and that do not hatch. Where they are in the incubator to what...
today we set 42 eggs in the bator; 25 Old English Game Bantams- Wheaten, 7 Rhode Island Reds, 4 Blue Splash Cochins, 4 Partridge Cochins, 2 mottled Bantam cochins. I can't wait to see what comes out!
I just whish I had some Jersey Giants to put in the Bator.
I am so excited we are planning our first, and probably only, hatch of the year. We will begin on April 25th, what will you be doing?
It looks like we will be hatching; 18 OEG Wheatens; 12 Cochins and maybe 6 Jersey Giants and 6 Black Copper Marans.
We cant wait.
I'm hatching on the 7th, 2 Blue laced Red Waynedottes out of 8, 13 Frizzle Cochins out of 14 and 7 Ringneck Pheasents (of witch I can not see insde the shells, too dark)
The two large eggs in the cage are Blue laced Red Waynedottes and the three small eggs in the cage are the small Frizzle...
I had a cracked egg and it leaked and the shell stuck to the plastic tray. I got the egg out by breaking it, but the bottom of the egg is still in the tray. It is like the egg shell is super glued to the tray. How can I get the egg shell out?
I have read in the threads of Backyardchickens .com that someone had organic Wal-Mart eggs and put them in an incubator and they hatched. I had an hatching egg supplier back out of sending me a dozen eggs that I paid for 47 days prior. I had the space in the incubator for a dozen eggs and I...
Today I set the rest of the eggs, 21. I set 7 ringneck pheasent eggs on monday. Looking for a good hatch August 6th. How about you?
I added 12 organic Wal-Mart eggs, fillers.